https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Denmark in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Danes will from Saturday afternoon be able to stock up on cheap booze, tobacco, sweets and soft drinks at shopping centres on the German border, after the province of Schleswig-Holstein was ranked "yellow" in a new travel update. https://www.thelocal.dk/20210522/denmark-opens-up-for-border-shopping-in-northern-germany Sat, 22 May 2021 14:41:11 +0200 denmark-opens-up-for-border-shopping-in-northern-germany There were queues of traffic as long as 8km at Denmark's southern border on Monday, as German holidaymakers streamed in to spend weeks at summer houses in the country. https://www.thelocal.dk/20200615/queues-of-8km-as-denmark-opens-up-to-german-tourists Mon, 15 Jun 2020 12:35:43 +0200 queues-of-8km-as-denmark-opens-up-to-german-tourists Germany has opened its border to travellers from Denmark, four days ahead of the planned lifting of border controls on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.dk/20200612/germany-opens-borders-to-danish-residents Fri, 12 Jun 2020 18:43:08 +0200 germany-opens-borders-to-danish-residents Summer house owners in Denmark are calling for the government to open borders by the end of May so that Germans can come and celebrate the long Pentecost weekend at Danish holiday cottages. https://www.thelocal.dk/20200515/pressure-grows-on-denmarks-government-to-open-german-border Fri, 15 May 2020 12:31:44 +0200 pressure-grows-on-denmarks-government-to-open-german-border Germany is willing to reopen its border with Denmark, but is waiting for a decision from the Danish authorities, the country's interior minister said in a press conference on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.dk/20200513/germany-willing-to-reopen-danish-border-home-minister Wed, 13 May 2020 13:57:01 +0200 germany-willing-to-reopen-danish-border-home-minister Denmark's political parties are split over opening the country's borders, with the opposition Liberals arguing that the tourism industry will be crippled until visitors know when they can enter. https://www.thelocal.dk/20200507/danish-parties-clash-over-borders-in-lockdown-talks Thu, 07 May 2020 11:52:13 +0200 danish-parties-clash-over-borders-in-lockdown-talks Germany on Monday introduced border controls with Denmark in a bid to limit the progress of the coronavirus pandemic. https://www.thelocal.dk/20200316/germany-is-closing-border-with-denmark-on-monday Mon, 16 Mar 2020 07:18:30 +0100 germany-is-closing-border-with-denmark-on-monday The Danish government announced on Thursday that it was extending controls at its border with Germany. In a letter to the EU, Copenhagen cited the security risk posed by people fleeing deportation orders south of the border. https://www.thelocal.dk/20171013/denmark-claims-that-asylum-seekers-rejected-by-germany-pose-terror-threat Fri, 13 Oct 2017 13:22:33 +0200 denmark-claims-that-asylum-seekers-rejected-by-germany-pose-terror-threat Denmark is considering passing a law that could block a disputed Russian pipeline project which would run through the NATO member's territory due to security concerns. https://www.thelocal.dk/20171013/denmark-could-block-russian-pipeline Fri, 13 Oct 2017 11:28:26 +0200 denmark-could-block-russian-pipeline An MP with Denmark’s governing Liberal (Venstre) party has caused internal division in his own party after posting a message that appeared to show support for Germany’s far-right. https://www.thelocal.dk/20170925/danish-liberal-colleagues-split-over-german-election-result Mon, 25 Sep 2017 14:33:36 +0200 danish-liberal-colleagues-split-over-german-election-result The number of Germans travelling to Denmark each year is increasing – but the sandy beaches of the Scandinavian country’s west coast are no longer the only reason, according to a report. https://www.thelocal.dk/20170601/german-singles-coming-to-denmark-to-get-pregnant Thu, 01 Jun 2017 15:00:41 +0200 german-singles-coming-to-denmark-to-get-pregnant Police on the Danish island of Funen are treating a fatal stone-throwing incident as murder after a German tourist lost her life on a local motorway. https://www.thelocal.dk/20160822/german-woman-killed-in-danish-stone-throwing-murder Mon, 22 Aug 2016 14:54:02 +0200 german-woman-killed-in-danish-stone-throwing-murder Danish foreign minister Kristian Jensen complained on Wednesday that Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel had underestimated how many refugees would flood into her country under a former open door policy. https://www.thelocal.dk/20160310/denmark-merkel-underestimated-refugee-crisis Thu, 10 Mar 2016 08:30:52 +0100 denmark-merkel-underestimated-refugee-crisis The government on Wednesday extended border checks through February 3 but warned the measures will stay in place “until it is no longer necessary”. https://www.thelocal.dk/20160113/denmark-extends-controls-at-german-border Wed, 13 Jan 2016 14:58:17 +0100 denmark-extends-controls-at-german-border In the first 24 hours of temporary controls at the German border, 18 people were denied entry into Denmark and three people were arrested for human smuggling. https://www.thelocal.dk/20160105/minimal-stops-on-denmarks-first-day-of-border-checks Tue, 05 Jan 2016 14:06:34 +0100 minimal-stops-on-denmarks-first-day-of-border-checks London mayor Boris Johnson has cited Denmark's power to block foreigners from buying property as proof the EU could allow the UK to delay benefits to EU immigrants for four years. https://www.thelocal.dk/20151214/holiday-home-in-jutland-nej-baby Mon, 14 Dec 2015 10:10:18 +0100 holiday-home-in-jutland-nej-baby Germany's intelligence agency eavesdropped on many of the country's closest European allies, including Denmark, according to new reports. https://www.thelocal.dk/20151109/denmark-to-do-nothing-about-alleged-germany-spying Mon, 09 Nov 2015 09:29:18 +0100 denmark-to-do-nothing-about-alleged-germany-spying Roadside signs are not something that typically generate a lot of interest, but that certainly has not been the case just north of the German border, where weeks of debate ended with an unknown perpetrator ripping down the area's first bilingual sign. https://www.thelocal.dk/20150427/danish-town-is-german-no-more Mon, 27 Apr 2015 13:45:51 +0200 danish-town-is-german-no-more A push by the German minority to have bilingual town signs in Southern Jutland (Sønderjylland) has now paid off in the town of Haderslev. Or perhaps we should say Hadersleben. https://www.thelocal.dk/20150423/danish-town-becomes-german-on-signs-anyway Thu, 23 Apr 2015 11:09:37 +0200 danish-town-becomes-german-on-signs-anyway On April 9th 1940, German Nazi troops launched an invasion into both Denmark and Norway, seizing Danish cities including the capital Copenhagen and causing the Danish King Christian X to surrender almost immediately. https://www.thelocal.dk/20150409/denmark-remembers-75-years-since-nazi-germany-invasion Thu, 09 Apr 2015 15:51:25 +0200 denmark-remembers-75-years-since-nazi-germany-invasion